Abdi-Noor Haji Mohamed Writer and film-Maker Mogadishu, Somalia
In a UN report published two weeks ago, it was confirmed that ten nations including Iran, Libya, Eritrea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti were sending arms to the Islamic Clerics in Somalia while on the other hand, Ethiopia, and Uganda were accused of providing troops and military equipment to the weak Transitional Federal Government which has its seat in Baidoa, 240 Kms South West of the capital Mogadishu.
Somalia has now more arms than necessary and there is growing evidence that a war may break out between the islamists and the secular government in which the arms providers will take sides between the warring groups. It is an open secret that the TFG and Union of Islamic Courts are both getting military and financial support from generous nations in and outside the Horn Of Africa region.
Currently there is a massive build up in many parts of the country especially Baidoa where the TFG is receiving military hardware from Ethiopia while the Islamic Courts Union are engaged in a hectic prepartion for war to face the TFG and its allies incase military engagement becomes the only option to take.
Somalia is almost out of the hands of the Somalis and never shall it come back to the Somalis if it is turned to a battlefield where other nations transport war which they don't want to fight inside their own territories. We have leaders who are hungry for blood and power so it is a good strategy to supply them arms and steal their nation while they are fighting. Our so called leaders speak of war and conflict When nothing is left to fight over. They have friends who only supply arms and ammunition When Somalia needs food and shelter for its flood victims particularly at a time when villages and district towns are being swept away by floods. Those who provide weapons to Somalia are just a hidden shame mirrored in the eyes of humanity.
Please share this poem with me:
Living with arms
Playing with arms
Coughing arms
Spiting arms
Sneezing arms
Firing arms
Carrying arms
Dismantling arms
Assembling arms
Storing arms
Stashing arms
Buying arms
Selling arms
Displaying arms
Dealing arms
Arms Arms Arms
Somalia is armed to the teeth
Yet it has no arms factory
If you deny giving them arms
Then where are the arms coming from?
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Why blame others when you all know Somalia is its own enemy? It doesn't matter who says or does what in the free world. What matters is how you synthesize the info. and play smart. If you deny your foolishness then you are one.
Abdinoor keep on writing what you think, I hope the people of Somalia will one day replace the imported bloody bullets with the power of pen and reason.
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Gedi Means he vows to assist an Ethiopian Takeover of Mogadishu.
Abdik, it has past that moment of criticism, it's now No Capital, no Country.
Iranians put aside their differences they were fighting each other when Attacked by Iraq, then they defended even though most people did not like the Irani Mullahs they help them defend the country.
Today they are a power in the world instead of being a colony of Iraq. Think!
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Mr. Abdi-Noor Mohamed you are a fool or you are playing fool.
How could you caracterize the current standoff between the Tigray army and the
the army of Somali Islamic Courts as a war between somalis amd claim that you live
in Mogadishu.
There is something wrong with you and Hiiraan.com who is giving you the podium.
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"ibya, Eritrea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti"
With friends like these who needs enemies.
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Brother Abdi-Noor do not be fooled this is not a civil war
that is about to happen but a war between two countries which
are historical enemies I am sad that our brother and sister working
for these cites must censure them selves and can't speak the truth. Why
are they alleiviating this problem we face. We can not let foriegners occupy
our land why we still breath.
Here is a clear and easy way to consider which side to choose:
These are the Countries reportedly arming the ICU Iran, Libya,
Eritrea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti; mostly
muslim countries. Arming the TFG are Ethiopia, and Uganda. So my people
who do you think is looking for our interest a bunch of muslim countries or our
arch enemy and a country we never had any relations with?
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And of course the "culumo" businessmens are not rich huh? The men I saw in Dubai sending expired medicine and foods to Somalia were not the sons of warlords but indeed the same men financing this current "Jihad" in Somalia.
I worked for the United Nations for few years and I can tell you brother that indeed the organization publishes similar reports almost every year. And in each report the org. not only mentions the names of countries providing help to the different sides in the Somali conflict but also the names of fringe groups as well. This may suprise you and others but last time even United States was on that same list because of the help they provided to the former Mogadsihu warlords of Yalahow and company.
If you really think the entire weapons in Somalia come from the border countries for business reasons I have a bridge I want to sell you in Baraawe. Wake up. Don't let your one sided support for the UIC blind you from the truth.
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Oh yea, as for the answer to the question about where the arms come from.
They come from the same place qat comes from neighboring markets. Just like the Nationalist brother said its a matter of Economics. If you think somalis are poor you probably dont know how rich war lords are. And they can always spare some cash to enhance their hardware.
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Poetry huh..
Why didnt the UN ask that questions during the last ten years? When the war lords were tearing up the places with ever increasing weapons, they couldnt care less. now the fighting stops, Mogadish is unified for the first time in 16 years, and this question comes up.
We might not make Weapons but the have become part of our national culture!
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So let me you this question brother truth teller or to the rest of you. Somalia does not make weapons. We don't have a plan to make guns. So as the brother asks where are the guns coming from?
The answer is somewhere. We are one of the poorest countries in the world but we are still seeing some expensive weaponry inside Somalia. Perhaps the U.N report was not accurate but lets not ignore the fact, the simple fact, that some foriegn interests are taking sides in Somalia and arming their allies.
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Already believing the faulty lies reported by the so called "experts" in the UN
Many real experts said about this report "Not even worth the ink and paper used to print it".
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Where are the arms coming from? the writer asks. It is called supply and demand economics 101. Where ther is a demand, prohibition, embargoes and sanctions doesn't have a chance.
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This brother never dissapoints me with his writing. Spread the word brother.
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